When we are told what to do
When the news is hard to bear
when pain and suffering fill our screens
and punctuate the air
Then weave my friends, weave.
Weave other possibilities
of kindness and of love
the world will always respond.
You may not see
how your love does its work
but know this…
know that it has.
Weave on and believe
The Weaving Lab has a ‘Writers Group’ which meets from time to time to practice writing collaboratively, sharing space and ideas to see what emerges.
A while back Emmanuelle Chiche asked us to think about how weaving helps us navigate the crises we see unfolding around us in these difficult times. We had 15 minutes, and I was lost in though for the first 12 of those but I managed to scribble something down in the last three.
It’s so short I didn’t think it was quite worthy of publication — but I liked it enough that I didn’t throw it in the bin and it’s been sitting on my desk ever since. It feels a bit like a companion piece to Josiane Smith’s poem about faith which follows below.
You can read more about she used poetry to open one of the Rockerfeller Philanthropy Advisors sessions in Oxford earlier this year here.
If you’ve got questions about Weaving Lab’s writing group please use the comments to ask them…
